decomP: a literary magazine
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From the Editor-in-Chief
By Jason Jordan
Welcome to our August 2011 issue, featuring new work from Kristi DeMeester, Donna L. Emerson, Jeffrey Greene, Eileen Hennessy, Pamela Michelle Johnson, Robert Laughlin, Ken Poyner, Angela Rydell, Matthew Salyers, Ian Sanquist, Jinen Jason Shulman, and Benjamin Winkler. Thanks for reading!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Dancing Naked On Bukowski’s Grave.
The joint collaborative of Catfish McDaris and Ben John Smith is on the shelves and ready to rock ya jocks. Featuring flash fictions, poetry, rare photographs and zine scans, this bad bitch should make a nun cum. Hard cover, 130 pages, split right in the guts – half BJS and the other CD, as cheap as it could possibly be made for, or download the PDF file for a buck or so.
via Dancing Naked On Bukowski’s Grave..
via Dancing Naked On Bukowski’s Grave..
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Guerilla Pamphlets Volume 13
Here's number 13
Its full of some wonderful poetry.
Please print out a copy or two.
Feel free to send us some of your poems.
Also: check out our photography website(guerillaphotography.webs.com)
spread the word.
peace,
archey
Episode 15 « In Between Altered States
Episode 15 « In Between Altered States.
Episode 15 is a series of dreams driven around the idea of hidden treasures. The writers each have thier own ideas of what that could mean and then I get to string them together in one big night terror for you to enjoy. If this is your first time at this rodeo please note that the stories are meant to be read in order for effect. You can go back and read them out of order too, whatever floats yer boat, but do give them a try in order. They are short!! I am pleased to have back in the ringCheryl Ann Gardner, Zack Kopp, Luis C. Berriozabal, Jay Passer, Josh Olsen and Shawn Misener. I am totally thrilled to have IBAS newcomers Robert Lyons and David Haase.
Episode 15 is a series of dreams driven around the idea of hidden treasures. The writers each have thier own ideas of what that could mean and then I get to string them together in one big night terror for you to enjoy. If this is your first time at this rodeo please note that the stories are meant to be read in order for effect. You can go back and read them out of order too, whatever floats yer boat, but do give them a try in order. They are short!! I am pleased to have back in the ringCheryl Ann Gardner, Zack Kopp, Luis C. Berriozabal, Jay Passer, Josh Olsen and Shawn Misener. I am totally thrilled to have IBAS newcomers Robert Lyons and David Haase.
Chicago Publisher ‘CCLaP’ Holds Quadruple Book Release Party « BIG OTHER
Chicago Publisher ‘CCLaP’ Holds Quadruple Book Release Party « BIG OTHER.
This looks to be fun!
The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, or CCLaP, is proud to announce their latest local live event, a large-scale party to celebrate the release of their first four paper books this summer. An electronic publisher since 2007, CCLaP has been quietly releasing new special-edition, handmade “Hypermodern” paper editions of its four titles throughout the summer; and onAugust 10th the group will be gathering at the popular Beauty Bar in theBucktown neighborhood for drinks, free food, and a half-hour reading from all four featured authors, as well as a few surprise guests. Beauty Bar is located at 1444 West Chicago Avenue, and the free event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m., the reading itself from 8:00 to 8:30. All four books will be for sale individually for $20 apiece; or for one night only, attendees can purchase all four in a bundle for only $50.
Books and performers being featured that night include the novella Too Young to Fall Asleep by Sally Weigel, about a Radiohead-listening “emo” high-school student who volunteers for the Iraq War (originally published in 2009); 99 Problems by Ben Tanzer, essays about the mental intersection between running and writing (originally published in 2010); Life After Sleep by Mark R. Brand, a day-after-tomorrow tale concerning a device that allows people to only need two hours of sleep a night (originally published this past winter); and Salt Creek Anthology by Jason Fisk, a collection of linked “micro-stories” regarding four trashy couples in the far Chicago suburbs (published this summer). CCLaP’s “Hypermodern” series is an attempt to create special collector-worthy editions of all the center’s electronic books, reasonably priced yet expertly made; they feature handmade hardbound covers, including a color photo of the ebook’s original cover adhered to the front, external Coptic stitching, whimsical decorative endpapers, a special signature/provenance page for collectors, and a full Colophon in the back listing all materials used. CCLaP itself has been open online since 2007, and with a handful of local live events held in varying venues across the city each year; the center also produces a semi-weekly podcast, sells general giftstore-style merchandise, and publishes over 150 book reviews a year at its popular website. Among other accolades, it’s been featured twice at respected arts guide BoingBoing.net, and its blog is followed by almost ten thousand unique monthly visitors.
For questions or more information, please contact executive director Jason Pettus at cclapcenter@gmail.com, or visit the CCLaP event page.
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THE2NDHAND txt » WRITE A MANIFESTO; T2H no. 37 upcoming
THE2NDHAND txt » WRITE A MANIFESTO; T2H no. 37 upcoming.
1. Imagine a literary/artistic “movement” — an aesthetic school, a militant lit troupe — of sorts called “Stupidism.”
2. Imagine further all appropriate tenets/favored aesthetics/styles/ways of living associated with being a practicing “Stupidist.”
3. Now write a “Stupidist Manifesto” of the group and email results (keep it under a single-spaced page) to me for consideration for THE2NDHAND’s next broadsheet, no. 37, a special issue to accompany the release of All Hands On, our 10th-anniversary anthology. Order the book here.
4. Get all manifestoes in by Aug. 5 for consideration for the broadsheet — I’ll definitely take any and all after the date as well into consideration for a special unit here at txt. For an example of a few myself, Spencer Dew, and Kate Duva crafted in 2007, go here.
That’s todd [at] the2ndhand.com.
1. Imagine a literary/artistic “movement” — an aesthetic school, a militant lit troupe — of sorts called “Stupidism.”
2. Imagine further all appropriate tenets/favored aesthetics/styles/ways of living associated with being a practicing “Stupidist.”
3. Now write a “Stupidist Manifesto” of the group and email results (keep it under a single-spaced page) to me for consideration for THE2NDHAND’s next broadsheet, no. 37, a special issue to accompany the release of All Hands On, our 10th-anniversary anthology. Order the book here.
4. Get all manifestoes in by Aug. 5 for consideration for the broadsheet — I’ll definitely take any and all after the date as well into consideration for a special unit here at txt. For an example of a few myself, Spencer Dew, and Kate Duva crafted in 2007, go here.
That’s todd [at] the2ndhand.com.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
California Small-Press Publisher Len Fulton Passes Away at 77 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
California Small-Press Publisher Len Fulton Passes Away at 77 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation.
We are sad to note the passing of a lovely person and key player in the small-press world, Len Fulton, the force behind Dustbooks Publishing and Small Press Review, who died of lung cancer last Sunday morning. Len, who was 77, also worked in California politics, acting as a Fifth District Supervisor in Chico. According to a longtime friend, he was “an artist, talented writer and playwright who had an interest in politics.”
Remembrances abound in the Paradise Post. One of the most striking is from friend and writer Hugh Fox, who writes about Fulton in detail:
We are sad to note the passing of a lovely person and key player in the small-press world, Len Fulton, the force behind Dustbooks Publishing and Small Press Review, who died of lung cancer last Sunday morning. Len, who was 77, also worked in California politics, acting as a Fifth District Supervisor in Chico. According to a longtime friend, he was “an artist, talented writer and playwright who had an interest in politics.”
Remembrances abound in the Paradise Post. One of the most striking is from friend and writer Hugh Fox, who writes about Fulton in detail:
Like saying goodbye to Debussy or Hemingway or H.G. Wells. I…first met Fulton in Berkeley in 1968 when we founded COSMEP, a small press org. that had yearly conventions here, there and everywhere: St. Paul, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, you name it. And everyone would be there, all the editors of small presses and lit mags. And poets and other writers. Always reading-shows, and I’d always read.
I got to know EVERYONE in the literary scene. And visited Fulton up in his place in Paradise, California, way in the middle of nowhere, or everywhere, if what you loved was California wilderness.
Tall dark-haired, a little moustache, always bright, on the ball, kind of Harvard professorish, but at the same time a kind of exploratory cowboy explorer always moving further into the essence of Nature itself. For years, two or three times a year I’d get a huge envelope filled with books and literary reviews to review for SMALL PRESS REVIEW, and he slowly turned me into a kind of central writer for the mag. Which I loved. Sadly COSMEP slowly disappeared over the years. Run by Richard Morris in San Francisco, it’s a book in itself that would go through the slow decapitations of all our dreams and hopes. But Morris died from cancer and COSMEP kind of died with him. There’s a huge file over in Special Collections at the Michigan State University library dealing with my connections with the death of COSMEP.
A couple of years back Fulton turned SPR into an on-line mag, which I wasn’t crazy about. But he’d always send me a printed copy too, and I’ve got this huge file in my bookcases, years and years and years of copies with my reviews in them.
In the last few years he became increasingly solitary. Suffering from lung cancer, but not aware that was what was going on. When I recently told him that I’m dying from cancer, he wrote a beautiful letter back and mentioned he wasn’t “quite up to it” either. But I don’t think he was aware it was lung cancer.
He was/is a central figure in the development of literary culture in the U.S. He published an INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES which I always found of central importance in finding publishers for my books and articles. An odd name for a press — Dustbooks. Always aware of the transience of life and everything surrounding him/us. Always Señor High Concentration, High Seriousness. I couldn’t believe the size of the library in his Paradise ranchhouse. I asked him “Any of my stuff here?,” and he walked over the showed me volume after volume after volume, almost everything I’d ever written, the whole library a veritable treasure house of literary treasures.
Zouch Magazine’s LIT BITS Fiction Contest - ZOUCH
SUBMIT YOUR LIT BITS STORY
Remember, it can be about any topic, in any style set in any time period so long as it is 140 words or less! Be creative. Keep it short, as short as you want.
Formats: We will read DOC and RTF documents (NOTE: PDFs are not accepted)
Spacing: We don’t care.
via Zouch Magazine’s LIT BITS Fiction Contest - ZOUCH.
Remember, it can be about any topic, in any style set in any time period so long as it is 140 words or less! Be creative. Keep it short, as short as you want.
Formats: We will read DOC and RTF documents (NOTE: PDFs are not accepted)
Spacing: We don’t care.
via Zouch Magazine’s LIT BITS Fiction Contest - ZOUCH.
THE2NDHAND txt » NERVES OF STEEL back Aug. 2 @ Hungry Brain, Chicago
THE2NDHAND txt » NERVES OF STEEL back Aug. 2 @ Hungry Brain, Chicago.
Nerves is back at the Brain August 2 w/ host Harold Ray and house band Good Evening. And:
Bad Bad Badness by Jesus Angel Garcia, author of the novelbadbadbad
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Dr. Huckleberry Persimmon Explains Very Little for You
Dr. Persimmon made a deal with a demon to have brilliant thoughts. Unfortunately, he didn’t specify “significant” or “useful,” and things therefore haven’t really worked out. Now he’s got just 44 thoughts left before it’s time to pay up. By Mark Chrisler
Starring Brian Nemtusak and Kevlyn Hayes
Punk, Suffering (w/ Banjo) by writer Chris Terry
w/ Backup Dancers in Tim Jones Yelvington
& Piano Musics by Azita Youseffi
Nerves is back at the Brain August 2 w/ host Harold Ray and house band Good Evening. And:
Bad Bad Badness by Jesus Angel Garcia, author of the novelbadbadbad
.Dr. Huckleberry Persimmon Explains Very Little for You
Dr. Persimmon made a deal with a demon to have brilliant thoughts. Unfortunately, he didn’t specify “significant” or “useful,” and things therefore haven’t really worked out. Now he’s got just 44 thoughts left before it’s time to pay up. By Mark Chrisler
Starring Brian Nemtusak and Kevlyn Hayes
Appalachian Antics by Jay Hill & Richie Ray Gene Bull Tipton (vets of our W.Va. edition from June)
Punk, Suffering (w/ Banjo) by writer Chris Terry
w/ Backup Dancers in Tim Jones Yelvington
& Piano Musics by Azita Youseffi
Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX012 | Smalldoggies Magazine Readings at The Blue Monk, Portland | Smalldoggies Magazine
Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX012 | Smalldoggies Magazine Readings at The Blue Monk, Portland | Smalldoggies Magazine.
Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX011: TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th, 2011 @ 8pm!
Permanent Location in the Southeast: 3341 SE Belmont at 34th Ave. @ The Blue Monk.
The Blue Monk on Belmont, PDX
3341 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 595-0575
Click for directions.
Or Go By Bus: SE Belmont and SE 34th.
One musical guest, Three (or more) Writers performing and reading poetry, fiction and prose.
Featured readers include: novelist Will Gallien(Washington), writer Rob Gray (PDX), writer Elizabeth J. Colen (Washington).
Musical Guests: Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives.
Information on our special guests coming soon… stay tuned for details.
Dirty Noir Call for Submissions
DOLLAR DREADFULS: Dirty Noir's Quarterly e-issue
http://www.dirtynoir.com/
Submissions for our debut quarterly are NOW OPEN! Get dark, get dirty, get involved.
We are now taking submissions for our debut quarterly e-issue. General guidelines remain, except where stated.
The e-issues will be themed in the future but for this first issue we're leaving it open, non-themed. So go nuts. The only must is that you give us some damn good Dirty Noir.
- Submissions should be no more than 10,000 words and no less than 500. However, we will consider submissions of 10,000-40,000 words for serialisation, which will span the course of the four issues that make up Vol. 1 of Dirty Noir.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if it gets snatched up so we can high-five you.
- But multiple submissions are a no-go. Send one at a time. If you didn't quite make it and there's still time, we'll ask you for something else.
- Unfortunately we can't pay you in cash money at this stage. Instead, we'll swing you a couple of copies of the e-book. Cool?
- Do us a favour, and DON'T report these submissions to DUOTROPE just yet. We need to set-up a separate listing for the quarterlies, as response times will be vary.
- That said, please allow up to 8 weeks to hear back from us before rapping at our door.
- Submissions close on September 15 or when the issue is full.
http://www.dirtynoir.com/
Submissions for our debut quarterly are NOW OPEN! Get dark, get dirty, get involved.
We are now taking submissions for our debut quarterly e-issue. General guidelines remain, except where stated.
The e-issues will be themed in the future but for this first issue we're leaving it open, non-themed. So go nuts. The only must is that you give us some damn good Dirty Noir.
- Submissions should be no more than 10,000 words and no less than 500. However, we will consider submissions of 10,000-40,000 words for serialisation, which will span the course of the four issues that make up Vol. 1 of Dirty Noir.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if it gets snatched up so we can high-five you.
- But multiple submissions are a no-go. Send one at a time. If you didn't quite make it and there's still time, we'll ask you for something else.
- Unfortunately we can't pay you in cash money at this stage. Instead, we'll swing you a couple of copies of the e-book. Cool?
- Do us a favour, and DON'T report these submissions to DUOTROPE just yet. We need to set-up a separate listing for the quarterlies, as response times will be vary.
- That said, please allow up to 8 weeks to hear back from us before rapping at our door.
- Submissions close on September 15 or when the issue is full.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Word Riot Inc. | Paula Anderson Book Award – Kicking small press into high gear
Word Riot Inc. | Paula Anderson Book Award – Kicking small press into high gear.
The Paula Anderson Book Award will be granted to the author of a work of literary fiction, either a novel or short story collection, that was published by a small or independent press in 2011. The award will honor a writer whose work embodies the bold spirit of Paula Anderson, the late co-founder of Word Riot Press. The title should have increased awareness of or otherwise drawn attention to the small press community because of the merit of the work.
An author, editor or publisher may nominate a title. Nominations will be accepted through our Submishmash submissions manager account. A PDF of the title must be accompanied by a $25 processing fee.
Self-published works will not be considered. Word Riot Press titles are ineligible for the Paula Anderson Book Award.
The book must have been published between Jan. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2011
Nominations will be accepted from Aug. 1, 2011 to June 1, 2012. The results of the 2012 Paula Anderson Book Award will be announced Aug. 1, 2012 and the winning author will receive $1,000.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Northern Poetry Review call for submissions: Best of Blog « Alex Boyd: BoydBlog
Northern Poetry Review call for submissions: Best of Blog « Alex Boyd: BoydBlog.
Northern Poetry Review (Canada) is looking for "your best piece on any subject related to poetry" for posting with a link to your blog, either in a special update or one or two at a time. No strict word limit, but somewhere between one thousand and four thousand words would be ideal. Send to northernreview [at] gmail.com
Northern Poetry Review (Canada) is looking for "your best piece on any subject related to poetry" for posting with a link to your blog, either in a special update or one or two at a time. No strict word limit, but somewhere between one thousand and four thousand words would be ideal. Send to northernreview [at] gmail.com
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Jersey Devil Press. New Book by Danger_Slater
A Date That Shall Live In Infamy… Or Just Regular Famy | Jersey Devil Press.
Love Me by Danger_Slater, the world's most flammable writer will be released on August 9, 2011. Love Me will be available as a paperback or an e-book, from a variety of resellers.
Love Me is the touching tale of a guy in a Viking suit on an epic quest to figure out the mysteries of life.
Donate $25 to Jersey Devil Press and receive the book a few days early as well as the e-book Screw the Universe by Stephen Schwegler and Eirik Gumeny.
visit Jersey Devil Press for more information.
Love Me by Danger_Slater, the world's most flammable writer will be released on August 9, 2011. Love Me will be available as a paperback or an e-book, from a variety of resellers.
Love Me is the touching tale of a guy in a Viking suit on an epic quest to figure out the mysteries of life.
Donate $25 to Jersey Devil Press and receive the book a few days early as well as the e-book Screw the Universe by Stephen Schwegler and Eirik Gumeny.
visit Jersey Devil Press for more information.
Black Coffee Press. New book by J.A. Tyler
From Black Coffee Press:
A pulsating and non-linear revelation of a man as he learns of his impending fatherhood, sinks in his overwhelming cast of family, and crushes beneath the world as we all sometimes do. This is a book about losing your mind perhaps more than your heart, or in either case, of realizing the loss of self.
A Shiny, Unused Heart
by J.A. Tyler
$12.95
110 pages
ISBN 9780982744055
Black Coffee Press, 2011
Available here.
A pulsating and non-linear revelation of a man as he learns of his impending fatherhood, sinks in his overwhelming cast of family, and crushes beneath the world as we all sometimes do. This is a book about losing your mind perhaps more than your heart, or in either case, of realizing the loss of self.
A Shiny, Unused Heart
by J.A. Tyler
$12.95
110 pages
ISBN 9780982744055
Black Coffee Press, 2011
Available here.
The Velvet Press - Warmed and Bound
New Book
Warmed and Bound is an anthology of short stories stitched together by the people at The Velvet and edited by the beautiful and talented Pela Via. The book will be released July 22, 2011, and will be available at major online retailers, and also in e-formats for your e-Reading pleasure.
Contributors: Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O'Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Craig Wallwork, Nic Young. Edited by Pela Via.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Craig Clevenger, Stephen Graham Jones Headline Army Of Indie Lit Writers For Noir Story Collection
North Hollywood, CA – 6/28/2011 – The Velvet, an online incubator for future literary writers, have come together to publish WARMED AND BOUND, a story collection that brings “Velvet Noir” to the masses. On July 22nd, the result of this months-long outing will be available in paperback and eBook form with major retailers.
From critically-acclaimed authors Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook) and Stephen Graham Jones (Demon Theory) to indie lit heavyweights Matt Bell (How They Were Found) and Jeremy Robert Johnson (Extinction Journals), this collection brings the best in established and up-and-coming talent to explore “scary love stories” and “nostalgic thrillers” that will grip and never let go.
Says Steve Erickson, author of Our Ecstatic Days: “The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas.” From the twisted parent in Caleb J. Ross’ “Click-Clack,” to Bradley Sands’ bizzaro “Soccer Moms And Pro Wrestler Dads,” this collection can only be called “Velvet Noir,” distinctly familiar and yet completely indescribable.
From publisher Logan Rapp: “Velvet Noir is the comfortable danger of a love that may come back to completely obliterate you. WARMED AND BOUND distills this feeling perfectly.”
For more information about WARMED AND BOUND, please visit WWW.WARMEDANDBOUND.COM or contact PELA VIA at PELAVIA@THE-VELVET.COM.
Warmed and Bound is an anthology of short stories stitched together by the people at The Velvet and edited by the beautiful and talented Pela Via. The book will be released July 22, 2011, and will be available at major online retailers, and also in e-formats for your e-Reading pleasure.
Contributors: Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O'Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Craig Wallwork, Nic Young. Edited by Pela Via.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Craig Clevenger, Stephen Graham Jones Headline Army Of Indie Lit Writers For Noir Story Collection
North Hollywood, CA – 6/28/2011 – The Velvet, an online incubator for future literary writers, have come together to publish WARMED AND BOUND, a story collection that brings “Velvet Noir” to the masses. On July 22nd, the result of this months-long outing will be available in paperback and eBook form with major retailers.
From critically-acclaimed authors Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook) and Stephen Graham Jones (Demon Theory) to indie lit heavyweights Matt Bell (How They Were Found) and Jeremy Robert Johnson (Extinction Journals), this collection brings the best in established and up-and-coming talent to explore “scary love stories” and “nostalgic thrillers” that will grip and never let go.
Says Steve Erickson, author of Our Ecstatic Days: “The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas.” From the twisted parent in Caleb J. Ross’ “Click-Clack,” to Bradley Sands’ bizzaro “Soccer Moms And Pro Wrestler Dads,” this collection can only be called “Velvet Noir,” distinctly familiar and yet completely indescribable.
From publisher Logan Rapp: “Velvet Noir is the comfortable danger of a love that may come back to completely obliterate you. WARMED AND BOUND distills this feeling perfectly.”
For more information about WARMED AND BOUND, please visit WWW.WARMEDANDBOUND.COM or contact PELA VIA at PELAVIA@THE-VELVET.COM.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Pre-Order to your heart's content
Now available for pre-order
Red Reader #1
by Lynn Alexander, Shane Allison, Shaindel Beers, Tyson Bley, April Michelle Bratten, Judy L. Brekke, Brad Burjan, Paul Corman-Roberts, Aleathia Drehmer, Mary Ann Loesch, Leopold McGinnis, Mathias Nelson, Puma Perl, Misti Rainwater-Lites and Luis Rivas. Michele McDannold, Editor.
Pre-order @ theliteraryunderground.org
Side-stapled Sandpaper: 38 pages
Publisher: Red Fez Publications & Lit Vision Press (August 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0976715306
Product Description:
This limited edition is a 8 ½ x 11 side-stapled book with a sandpaper cover and full-color interior pages-- accessible, gritty poetry, prose and art by fifteen talented writers and artists.
A Note in the Window
by Bill Gainer
Pre-order @ Amazon.com
Perfect Paperback: 41 pages
Publisher: Red Alice Books (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972295879
ISBN-13: 978-0972295871
Product Description
If Bill Gainer wrote motion pictures, they would be noirs. If he wrote novels, they would be pulp. But he doesn't, he writes poems and they are magic. That's his secret, he knows how to find those open windows and the notes left there. When you're with him, you soon learn he leaves no heart empty. So, if it s a foggy night, if the lights are down low and maybe - a cigarette's left burning, leave A Note in the Window. He ll find you.
About the Author
Bill Gainer has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. He is a co-founder and current board member of the nationally renowned Nevada County Poetry Series. Among other awards and recognitions, he is a past winner of the S.F. Beat Museum's Poetry Contest. Gainer has read and worked with a wide range of poets and writers, including readings on KUSF radio with National Book Award recipient Punk-Rocker Patti Smith and performances with California's Poet Laureate, Al Young. Gainer keeps a list, THE WOMEN I WILL LOVE FOREVER. Everybody is on it! Visit him at billgainer.com.
Six Months
by Josh Olsen
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Perfect Paperback: 75 pages
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
Zygote in my Coffee #8
by Frank Reardon, F.N. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson, Casey Rearick.
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
Product Description:
This perfect bound collection features the work of Frank Reardon, F.n. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson and a stunning cover photograph by Casey Rearick!
Red Reader #1
by Lynn Alexander, Shane Allison, Shaindel Beers, Tyson Bley, April Michelle Bratten, Judy L. Brekke, Brad Burjan, Paul Corman-Roberts, Aleathia Drehmer, Mary Ann Loesch, Leopold McGinnis, Mathias Nelson, Puma Perl, Misti Rainwater-Lites and Luis Rivas. Michele McDannold, Editor.
Pre-order @ theliteraryunderground.org
Side-stapled Sandpaper: 38 pages
Publisher: Red Fez Publications & Lit Vision Press (August 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0976715306
Product Description:
This limited edition is a 8 ½ x 11 side-stapled book with a sandpaper cover and full-color interior pages-- accessible, gritty poetry, prose and art by fifteen talented writers and artists.
A Note in the Window
by Bill Gainer
Pre-order @ Amazon.com
Perfect Paperback: 41 pages
Publisher: Red Alice Books (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972295879
ISBN-13: 978-0972295871
Product Description
If Bill Gainer wrote motion pictures, they would be noirs. If he wrote novels, they would be pulp. But he doesn't, he writes poems and they are magic. That's his secret, he knows how to find those open windows and the notes left there. When you're with him, you soon learn he leaves no heart empty. So, if it s a foggy night, if the lights are down low and maybe - a cigarette's left burning, leave A Note in the Window. He ll find you.
About the Author
Bill Gainer has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. He is a co-founder and current board member of the nationally renowned Nevada County Poetry Series. Among other awards and recognitions, he is a past winner of the S.F. Beat Museum's Poetry Contest. Gainer has read and worked with a wide range of poets and writers, including readings on KUSF radio with National Book Award recipient Punk-Rocker Patti Smith and performances with California's Poet Laureate, Al Young. Gainer keeps a list, THE WOMEN I WILL LOVE FOREVER. Everybody is on it! Visit him at billgainer.com.
Six Months
by Josh Olsen
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Perfect Paperback: 75 pages
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
Zygote in my Coffee #8
by Frank Reardon, F.N. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson, Casey Rearick.
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
Product Description:
This perfect bound collection features the work of Frank Reardon, F.n. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson and a stunning cover photograph by Casey Rearick!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Red Ceilings Press - New ebook
the red ceilings: This is not Poetry. #poetry ~ Joseph A. W. Qunintela.
New free ebook out on the Red Ceilings Press.
This is not Poetry. #poetry by Joseph A. W. Qunintela.
This is not Poetry. #poetry by Joseph A. W. Qunintela.
Visit the website for the complete list of ebooks and limited edition chapbooks.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Thunderclap Press releases new chapbook
Thunderclap Press has just released a new chapbook of poetry by Kat Dixon called Birding.
Order from Thunderclap Press at http://thunderclappress.com/2011/07/20/birding-by-kat-dixon-now-on-sale/
$8.00 for the print version or $5.00 for the ebook.
Kat Dixon’s, Birding, is a wonderfully fluent, beautiful book of 12 poems each titled by a type of bird.
Order from Thunderclap Press at http://thunderclappress.com/2011/07/20/birding-by-kat-dixon-now-on-sale/
$8.00 for the print version or $5.00 for the ebook.
Word Riot releases July Issue
Word Riot, July 2011
http://www.wordriot.org/
Includes an interview with Joseph Ridgwell by David Hoenigman, flash fiction from Meg Pokrass, short story from Apryl Lee, poetry from Ari Feld, Peter Venable and much more.
http://www.wordriot.org/
Includes an interview with Joseph Ridgwell by David Hoenigman, flash fiction from Meg Pokrass, short story from Apryl Lee, poetry from Ari Feld, Peter Venable and much more.
Dispatch Litareview 3.3
dipatch 3.3, July 2011
Get the free download now - http://litareview.com/11/dl/dispatch3.3.pdf
Stories by Mike Ostrov, Russel Jaffe and George Moore.
Get the free download now - http://litareview.com/11/dl/dispatch3.3.pdf
Stories by Mike Ostrov, Russel Jaffe and George Moore.
New eChap by Steve Subrizi
Newly Wild Hedgehog by Steve Subrizi is available as a viewable
electronic chapbook from NAP
(http://issuu.com/napmagazine/docs/hedgehog) or ebook for download
(http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/73678)
electronic chapbook from NAP
(http://issuu.com/napmagazine/docs/hedgehog) or ebook for download
(http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/73678)
Saturday, July 16, 2011
New Issues from Blink Ink
Blink Ink #6 and #7 are out, with the special noir issue on the way. Blink Ink is a printed quarterly publication edited by Doug Mathewson, produced by Lynn Alexander for Full Of Crow. Blink|Ink remains one of Full Of Crow’s core projects, and your support is appreciated. We produce our publications with an eye toward keeping our costs down and we just try (try!) to cover printing costs with our subscriptions. The subscription price has been $5.00 a year, which includes four quarterly issues mailed to your door and one special issue. This year, the special issue is our “noir” issue and it will be out in August, 2011. http://www.blink-ink.com/
Blink Ink #7-- Barr Bielinski, Randall D. Brown, Ashley Dean, Sarah Fiete, Amanda Gowin, Nick Johns, Peter LaBerge, Shea Newton, Robin Stratton, Susan tepper, Richard Thomas, Stephanie Thurrot, JJ Toner, Dale Wisely, Jim Wittenberg.
Blink Ink #7-- Barr Bielinski, Randall D. Brown, Ashley Dean, Sarah Fiete, Amanda Gowin, Nick Johns, Peter LaBerge, Shea Newton, Robin Stratton, Susan tepper, Richard Thomas, Stephanie Thurrot, JJ Toner, Dale Wisely, Jim Wittenberg.
New Book from Richard J. Cronborg
Blue Collar Journal by Richard J. Cronborg is now available at amazon.com. Blue Collar Journal is a diary of a retired heavy equipment operator. It contains stories, poems, and daily reflections. It is written simply and directly. It is sometimes dark, but often humorous. Above all it is always honest. The book takes the reader on a magical journey into the author's blue-collar world.
Paperback: 562 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (February 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1453774424
ISBN-13: 978-1453774427
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Publisher: CreateSpace (February 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1453774424
ISBN-13: 978-1453774427
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
About the Author
Richard Cronborg spent thirty-three years as a Local #150 union heavy-equipment operator, in the Chicagoland area. He has had many blue collar jobs in his lifetime: Pizza delivery driver, warehouseman, painter, bartender, flower delivery man, clothing salesman, employment agency "headhunter", and a variety of other menial jobs in his colorful career. His stories and poems are mainly autobiographical, but many are about other people he has met or imagined. Cronborg is now retired, and resides in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife, Debbie. He has a B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University. He is a well-known Chicago artist who has been featured in Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. Cronborg has also appeared in a variety of major network television shows in the Chicagoland area. "Blue Collar Journal" is his fourth book. It is a diary of a man who has seen life from many angles. Sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, the book takes the reader to many places. Cronborg is first and foremost a story teller. He loves to look at contemporary American life as it relates to the world. Much of what he has internalized as a working man has affected his verse. Cronborg continues to ponder his life and the world at large from a philosophical and sociological point of view.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Pank Magazine 6.07
PANK Magazine / 6.07 / July 2011
www.pankmagazine.com
The July issue is live with truly amazing work from Patricia Lockwood, Amanda Montei, Impossible Mike, Jessica Dyer, Brian Laidlaw, Rachel Levy, Lisa McCool-Grime, Roger Camp, Ezra Fox, Amorak Huey, Kristen Iskandrian, MG Martin, and much more: http://www.pankmagazine.com/ca?tegory/2011/6-07-july-2011/
www.pankmagazine.com
The July issue is live with truly amazing work from Patricia Lockwood, Amanda Montei, Impossible Mike, Jessica Dyer, Brian Laidlaw, Rachel Levy, Lisa McCool-Grime, Roger Camp, Ezra Fox, Amorak Huey, Kristen Iskandrian, MG Martin, and much more: http://www.pankmagazine.com/ca
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Red Fez #36
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Phantom Kangaroo Issue #9
Phantom Kangaroo, Issue #9 (July 2011)
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/issue-no-9/
Contributors: Dawn Schout, Dorene O'Brien, Eamonn Lorigan, Erin Croy, Kate Frank, Kimberly Casey, Matthew Byrne, Meaghan Ford, Paul Hellweg, Robert McDonald, Sarah J. Sloat, Susie Swanton, Wesley Dylan Gray.
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/issue-no-9/
Contributors: Dawn Schout, Dorene O'Brien, Eamonn Lorigan, Erin Croy, Kate Frank, Kimberly Casey, Matthew Byrne, Meaghan Ford, Paul Hellweg, Robert McDonald, Sarah J. Sloat, Susie Swanton, Wesley Dylan Gray.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
New Fiction at Full Of Crow
Full Of Crow, Quarterly Fiction (July 2011)
Contributors: Iris Applequist Barry Basden, Kim Suhr, David Meuel, HK Rainey, Tom Stevens, Megan Willoughby, Kip Hanson, Barbara Hall, John S. Fields, Tres Crow, Edward Wells II and Edward J. Rathke.
Full Of Crow Fiction is edited by Paul Corman-Roberts, produced by Lynn Alexander. Quarterly issues appear online in July, October, January, and April.
Contributors: Iris Applequist Barry Basden, Kim Suhr, David Meuel, HK Rainey, Tom Stevens, Megan Willoughby, Kip Hanson, Barbara Hall, John S. Fields, Tres Crow, Edward Wells II and Edward J. Rathke.
Full Of Crow Fiction is edited by Paul Corman-Roberts, produced by Lynn Alexander. Quarterly issues appear online in July, October, January, and April.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
New Issue from Negative Suck
Negative Suck, July 2011
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
Howie Good, Cheryl Anne Gardner, David Mac, Gary Percesepe, Emily Smith-Miller, Valerie Walter, Kirsty Logan, Karissa Satchwell, Roberta Lawson, Chris Butler, Len Kuntz, Nicolette Wong
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
Howie Good, Cheryl Anne Gardner, David Mac, Gary Percesepe, Emily Smith-Miller, Valerie Walter, Kirsty Logan, Karissa Satchwell, Roberta Lawson, Chris Butler, Len Kuntz, Nicolette Wong
Call for Submissions - Opium Magazine
Submit NOW to Opium39's Heaven Issue!
Opium is in a wild, last-minue hunt for your most brilliant stories for our Heaven issue. If you have written a story about these topics, we want you to submit them IMMEDIATELY (or, say, by Wednesday):
Mothers, death, sadness, dying, living, heaven, hope, happiness, loss of hope, resurrection, hell, ghosts, love, disgust, the profound inability to cope, or things around these categories.
Thing is, we want them to pop. We want electricity to fly out of your sentences. We want stories that will make us laugh (like, say, Etgar Keret's), cry (like, say, Bright Lights, Big City) and dream (like, say, the TV show Men of a Certain Age, specifically the softball episode), and make us yodel (we don't usually yodel). We want the story you sent to the New Yorker because it's your absolute best story and, y'know, it's worth a shot. Send it to us, and quick. We're painfully slow in responding to submissions these last years, we know that, we're aware! It sucks for us, too. But for this issue, it's important for us to have the absolute best (well, that's the way it is for every issue, but we've been out of the game for some time, now, and we're going to punch a hole in the universe when we get back in it, when Opium39 releases in the late-ish fall). Okay, we're fired up, and we hope you are, too.
Oh, and to make things easier: the link to submit to Opium Magazine is right here.
Opium is in a wild, last-minue hunt for your most brilliant stories for our Heaven issue. If you have written a story about these topics, we want you to submit them IMMEDIATELY (or, say, by Wednesday):
Mothers, death, sadness, dying, living, heaven, hope, happiness, loss of hope, resurrection, hell, ghosts, love, disgust, the profound inability to cope, or things around these categories.
Thing is, we want them to pop. We want electricity to fly out of your sentences. We want stories that will make us laugh (like, say, Etgar Keret's), cry (like, say, Bright Lights, Big City) and dream (like, say, the TV show Men of a Certain Age, specifically the softball episode), and make us yodel (we don't usually yodel). We want the story you sent to the New Yorker because it's your absolute best story and, y'know, it's worth a shot. Send it to us, and quick. We're painfully slow in responding to submissions these last years, we know that, we're aware! It sucks for us, too. But for this issue, it's important for us to have the absolute best (well, that's the way it is for every issue, but we've been out of the game for some time, now, and we're going to punch a hole in the universe when we get back in it, when Opium39 releases in the late-ish fall). Okay, we're fired up, and we hope you are, too.
Oh, and to make things easier: the link to submit to Opium Magazine is right here.
Monday, July 4, 2011
New Issue from Gutter Eloquence Magazine
Summer is here, and it's hot...as usual. And speaking
of hot, Issue #16 of Gutter Eloquence Magazine
is now online, ablaze with some of the best voices of
the underground lit scene and beyond!
G.E.M. #16 features poetry
by these contributors:
Susan Adams
Louise Andrade
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
J.J. Campbell
Valentina Cano
Aleathia Drehmer
James H. Duncan
Mat Gould
John Grochalski
Melissa Hansen
Jack Henry
Paul Hostovsky
Jennifer Lobaugh
Ally Malinenko
Scott Owens
Ken Poyner
Frank Reardon
Damian Rivera
John L. Stanizzi
Jamie Townend
James Valvis
Check 'em out at http://www.guttereloquence.com
--Jack T. Marlowe, Editor
of hot, Issue #16 of Gutter Eloquence Magazine
is now online, ablaze with some of the best voices of
the underground lit scene and beyond!
G.E.M. #16 features poetry
by these contributors:
Susan Adams
Louise Andrade
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
J.J. Campbell
Valentina Cano
Aleathia Drehmer
James H. Duncan
Mat Gould
John Grochalski
Melissa Hansen
Jack Henry
Paul Hostovsky
Jennifer Lobaugh
Ally Malinenko
Scott Owens
Ken Poyner
Frank Reardon
Damian Rivera
John L. Stanizzi
Jamie Townend
James Valvis
Check 'em out at http://www.guttereloquence.com
--Jack T. Marlowe, Editor
Saturday, July 2, 2011
New Release from decomP Magazine
Welcome to our July 2011 issue, featuring new work from Eric Berge, J. Bradley, André Braga Cabral, Elizabeth J. Colen, Will Cordeiro, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Sarah Lindsay, Peter Tieryas Liu, Jacqueline May, Marilyn Ringer, Lani Scozzari, Russel Swensen, Meghan Tutolo, and Leia Wilson. Additionally, we have reviews of Joshua Mohr's Damascus, Michael Stewart's The Hieroglyphics, and Ben Tanzer's My Father's House. Thanks for reading!
www.decompmagazine.com
www.decompmagazine.com
New Release from Menacing Hedge
We are pleased to announce the inaugural launch of Menacing Hedge:Summer 2011 edition. This issue features kick-ass work from Juliet Cook, Christine Hamm, Beth Coyote, Paul Nelson, Chenelle Milford, Meg Pokrass, Nancy Ibsen, Lauren India Henley, Lucile Barker, P. Hurshell, Julene Tripp Weaver, Nathan Moore, Leo Briones, and last but not least, Jeremy Halinen.
www.menacinghedge.com
Please also be sure to listen to the contributor's recordings and take a peek at Scary Bush, Menacing Hedge's evil, but still beloved, twin.
www.menacinghedge.com
Please also be sure to listen to the contributor's recordings and take a peek at Scary Bush, Menacing Hedge's evil, but still beloved, twin.
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